COMPLAINT BY PENSIONER

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29856, 23 June 1962, Page 5

COMPLAINT BY PENSIONER

Noise Of Cowshed Radio

A war pensioner complained to the Halswell County Council that his efforts to find peace and quiet in the county were thwarted by a blaring cowshed radio. The writer said he was in bad health, and suffered from almost constant pain about the head.

“It is surely a travesty of British justice when a man moves to the country for health reasons and cannot find peace,” he said. “I can hear the cursed thing with my head under the blankets. It deprives me of what,little sleep I get, as I usually onlydoze fitfully in the morning. Then! On comes the radio, rising to a maddening crescendo.” The council will tell the farmer about the complaint and ask him to set his radio at a “moderate” volume. I; will also tell him that the matter is beyond the council’s jurisdiction. “You get the same sort of complaint in the city about cockerels crowing in the morning,” Cr. G. Van Asch said.

ell's jurisdiction. “You get the same sort of complaint in the city about cockerels crowing in the morning,” Cr. G. Van Asch said. He said the difficulty was that the radio had to be played loudly to be heard above the noise of the milking machine. “I am always telling my men to turn the cowshed radio down,” he said.